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by thomersch_ 2y ago
Ha, not sure why it got submitted here now, but since I wrote the software, I'll provide some background: A couple of years ago we had a hand-fiddled table in our OpenStreetMap wiki with events, but discovery was poor and nobody really
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by thomersch_ 7y ago
Sorry, I can’t agree with your characterization. Obviously nitpickers exist, but the general community can be very helpful. Some people have strange ideas and expect everyone to go along, but everything is up for discussion. Especially for
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by thomersch_ 7y ago
Minor correction: one of the developers is working for Mapbox
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by thomersch_ 7y ago
OSM is more like a community of communities: There are people mapping with very diverse value systems (ranging from underserved people to semantic data aficionados), groups and corporations building software, volunteers running the servers
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by thomersch_ 7y ago
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by thomersch_ 7y ago
Just a few months ago SpaceX fanboys were telling us those satellites were no problem, because "space is so large". The problem is, they’re operated by overworked, delusional people. People are going to die, because hype is more f
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by thomersch_ 7y ago
Blocks are useful, because you can distribute the workload onto several workers. Most encoders nowadays write first blocks with just nodes, then blocks with just ways and then just relations.
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by thomersch_ 7y ago
Yeah, the OSM PBF format is really efficient in size, but it can be quite a pain to work with those files. Every way consists of nodes, which are usually at the very beginning of the file (first nodes, then ways, then relations). So in orde
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by thomersch_ 7y ago
For me it's because they do damage their workers' rights and their fans are so insufferable: The denial that they have quality issues, the repeated lies ("we are going to build a factory in weeks", while everyone knows t
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by thomersch_ 7y ago
Nope, they just cherry-picked someone who is positive, which is not the case for most mappers.
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by thomersch_ 7y ago
I like and use nsupdate.info for years. Also: It's free software.
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by thomersch_ 7y ago
"How hard must being a bank be, it's just a few numbers in a database." After all those new-ish, app-based banks are for people with too much time on their hands. You mostly can't talk to anyone, and when they answer it&
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by thomersch_ 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Software Developer, GIS Specialist | Remote or Cologne, Germany - Website: https://thomas.skowron.eu/freelance/ - Tech Stack: Go, Python, Django, Ansible, PostgreSQL and PostGIS, Prometheus, Server herdi
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by thomersch_ 8y ago
Objects are dependent on each other and new, legitimate edits can happen on top of damaging ones which we would not like to revert automatically. Yes, there are tools in place which can revert edits, but there is still manual checking requi
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by thomersch_ 8y ago
No, the company that integrates it makes me pay (by doing work for google)
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by thomersch_ 8y ago
In case you want to control your HS100 from Apple Homekit, I recently wrote a small tool that you can run in your local netrwork: https://github.com/thomersch/tplink-homekit
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by thomersch_ 9y ago
Contact some organisation (e.g. EFF or Chaos Computer Club) which specialises in that stuff in order to save yourself from being sued by the vendor.
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by thomersch_ 10y ago
Really staggered to see work on Podcasting and not even mentioning or considering Podlove http://podlove.org/ They are already working for several years on improvements and standards for publishing and consuming podcasts. E
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by thomersch_ 10y ago
Interesting. The project structure looks a bit weird, though. It's basically an own GOPATH, which makes it harder to vendor. I would suggest putting src/devt.de/dudeldu in the root and everything else in subdirectories.
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by thomersch_ 10y ago
Satellite/Areal imagery is not the most accurate thing. It might be skewed, misaligned or stitched incorrectly. In OpenStreetMap areal imagery is a great help, but not the single source of truth. For mappers those images are a good sta
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by thomersch_ 10y ago
In Germany those two things are distinct. 250 km/h is very high speed but not necessarily speeding.
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by thomersch_ 11y ago
You might like http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/ . But honestly, even if it's proprietary, OpenStreetMappers don't mind. We're happy that someone is using our data, that's what we are there for.
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by thomersch_ 11y ago
There are commercial sponsors for the Congress, e.g. for some of the network equipment, because it would be uneconomical to buy network equipment and using it only once a year. Nevertheless, sponsorship doesn't play such a big role, th
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by thomersch_ 11y ago
I would love to see support for pongo2 (which is a Django style template library). Working with template inheritance would be so much easier.
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by thomersch_ 11y ago
Reminds me of http://codeivate.com , I really like it although it has some rough edges
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Coffee in Crisis(bbc.com)
49 points by thomersch_ 11y ago|48 comments
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by thomersch_ 11y ago
BTW, there will be a Chaos Communication Camp this year (in fact in less than a month) [1]. You shouldn't miss it, the CCC does amazing events with tons of great people there. If you can, go there. [1] https://events.ccc.de&
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by thomersch_ 11y ago
For me how-old.net says (correctly) 23 and how-old.asia claims 34
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by thomersch_ 12y ago
I am really amazed how it's already smoother than Google StreetView
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Mapillary transforms crowd sourced streetview into interactive 3D(blog.mapillary.com)
22 points by thomersch_ 12y ago|4 comments

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